My Home Improvement Project

I have been a part of many home improvement projects over the years and my most recent project was a four bedroom detached house located in Warrington. The idea started off as we would do the house up and sell it on for a profit. This is what my dad and I do in our spare time if you like. So we started work as we usually do and slowly the house took shape and I mean it really took shape. It truly did look spectacular when it was finished. However there were two problems;

1. We didn’t want to sell it

2. We couldn’t sell it if we wanted to

The house, although fantastic, would never fetch a fantastic price due to competition in the area. Our house is the biggest on the street and the only detached house as well but everyone seemed more interested in buying the house that is semi detached and slightly smaller and saving some money. So we decided to keep the house and truly turn it into a work of art.

How to personalize a house to make it a home

Well we where no longer selling the house so we could use a color scheme that we wanted. We had chocolate coloured furniture and the whole house including the kitchen and sofas followed this colour scheme so we decided that we could paint the walls a really dark crème colour which looked a lot better than boring white! Next we had to job of converting the garage into something of more value than a garage (the house was at the very end of the street so we had the whole road and the driveway to park in) as this seemed null and void to us.

This was a time consuming job but once it was done it truly did look amazing. The hardest part of this mini project if you like was changing the position of the door so you could go into the "mans den" from the hall rather than from the kitchen due to a long story and some unfortunate accidents along the way.

Now it was accessory time – we bought a home entertainment system for the living room and mans den – installed clapper lights in the bedrooms which where awesome – and many more bits and bobs. Once this was done I was border line thinking about bumping off the old man just to have the house to myself (joking).

However we weren’t quite done. I looked at the French patio doors leading to the garden and a brainwave hit. My dad and I don’t usually go for conservatories for a variety of reasons including price, profit margin and time. This meant the thought had never occurred to me, let’s get a conservatory.

The conservatory project took four weeks and a lot of the work was outsourced. Once the piling was finished we thought the rest of the work would take no time at all but it turned out the opposite to be true. But once it was done I can honestly say that I was ready to buy my dad out and that’s what I did (still paying him off!) and it was worth every penny.